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Four hundred years of scientific inquiry and knowledge disagree.[/b] |
Faith transcends those 400 years.
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..which is why women now are in a better position than they have ever been and why in secular parts of the world people are no longer burned at the stake for practicing science. |
But religion still trumps secularism. The Soviests tried for 75 years to squelch all form of worship and didn't succeed. Nowadays, they are even rebuilding the Churches in Russia and adding new ones.
<!--QuoteBegin-Jet. As for inalienable rights, they're a myth. Rights obviously are alienable; in totalitarian regimes people are "alienated" from these rights. In ethics, the operational word is "should" rather than "be," so all we can say is that there are some rights that everybody should have all the time. As a legal concept, rights are obviously created by the law. But the idea that rights are somehow intrinsic or natural is mythical.[/quote] But you confuse your rights with might. Under the US Constitution, those rights are inalienable rights and are non-transferable and are the right of every citizen. In a totalitarian regime, people will lose their rights at the whim of a dictator. But if we follow our Constitution to its logical conclusion, we have rights that can't be taken away. Of course, the problem is that we just can't sit idle and expect to retain them. We have to work at keeping them and fight to protect them.
Rights and freedom are secured by the people. If we allow our government to usurp those rights, we deserve to lose them. And we will. We already have lost some of them.